- From: Chuck Letourneau <cpl@starlingweb.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 14:53:37 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
The draft says: @@ add something to Benefits about multiple versions vs one (accessible) version http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/tech.html#repurpose Something about this bothers me (but even after rewriting this message four times I'm not sure I'm expressing my concern very well... ) Does anyone really think it is practical to create one page - even a properly/carefully/thoughtfully designed page - that can adequately serve a wide range of devices without device-specific style-sheets? In the abstract I still believe this is possible, but the most common complaint I hear against the theory is that such a page will produce sub-optimal renderings on some target devices. It begs the questions: is it of more benefit from a marketing/customer service standpoint to serve pages that are optimized for a range of customer's devices, or will the reduction in development and maintenance costs of one page outweigh this marketing consideration? If, on the other hand, what we really mean by "one accessible version" is one fixed content package associated with one or more sets of device-specific style sheet instructions then we have to be explicit in stating this. I guess I don't have enough confidence in the ability of current user-agents to adequately render even perfectly compliant markup and style without author-intervention. Comments? Discussion? Brick through my window? Chuck Letourneau Starling Access Services "Access A World Of Possibility"
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